atw: Re: Appendixes vs annexes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Once again, I'm beginning to regret raising a topic! This time, it's not 
because it's led us into a battle between fiercely held points of view, 
but instead because it's exposed some of the more ghastly ways people 
manage to mangle our language.
Annexure, indeed! I'm sure you're right, Jill, that that word is being 
used as you describe, but I think I was happier when no-one had told me 
that. Adding a suffix -ure to a verb is normally used to make a noun 
describing the process or action of doing something, as in 'legislature' 
and 'pressure' from 'legislate' and 'press'. So 'annexure' should mean the 
*process* of annexing. (You could call Hitler's action the annexure of 
Austria, for example - though 'annexing' would do just as well in this 
case.) 

Nevertheless, dictionary.com does confirm that "Annexure is a term 
substituted in some legal documents for Appendix" (not those lawyers 
again!). So once again people have found a way to make our language a bit 
more complicated than it needs to be.

I just hope I never have to edit a document that has an annexure. (I might 
have a seizure.)

Howard 




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I thought an appended paper/prewritten doc was called an annexure, and I
believe the word attachment to mean the same.
I also agree with the Kath and Helen definition.
Jill
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>I agree with Kath and Helen too, but would also like to point out that
> 'annex' is what Germany did to Austria in 1938, and has no place in
> civilised documentation.
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> I agree with Kath and Helen.
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> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Helen Haywood
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> I agree with Kath. That is exactly my understanding too.
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> Regards
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> Helen=A0
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> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Bowman
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> Hi Howard,
> we use Appendix for additional information or diagrams that would, if
> included in the body of the document, interrupt the flow of the
> document's overall structure; i.e. it is a part of the document.
> An Annex is an external document (with its own title and document id)
> that may be bundled with the main document, but is not part of it.=3D20
> That is my take on the two terms.
> cheers
> Kath
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